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Sunday, February 26, 2012

Just Say No - PLEASE!!!!

If you blog much, especially if you are on a design team and leave a lot of comments, you have seen the new Word Verification format that Blogger has instituted. This is making it very difficult for us to leave comments, sometimes requiring us to enter letters two and three times because we can't make out what the letters are. We are all busy and while we love to leave comments on your wonderful work, we will no longer leave comments on blogs using word verification.

If you are concerned about spam, go to comment moderation. I personally moderate all comments 14 days and older. I find that if I do get spam it usually hits the older posts. While searching the internet for this Just Say No button, I came across a very informative post on how to turn off word verification. So rather than reinvent the wheel, I am going to refer you to the post on the Ramblings and Photos blog. If you need help figuring out how to turn off word verification, there are step-by-step directions and photos to walk you through. Thanks so much to Ashley Sisk for her very informative post on the subject!

You may not even know that you are using word verification. I believe it is turned on automatically when you create your blog. Now is a good time to check to see if you are using it.

Feel free to leave us comments on how you feel about our new approach and as always, we thank you for stopping by Our Creative Corner.

Thank you for posting this - I thought it was me/needing an eye check up - didn't hear about this change so thank you again for the info. Beyond frustrating - I experienced this on a blog and had to enter over five times. agh!

can't agree with you more! The new word verification is unbelievably time consuming. It took me about eight minutes to complete one this morning - it was two nine letter 'words', and I got it wrong three times. I was fuming by the end of it!

I thought I was the only one that needed to enter the letters 2 and 3 times! Good Grief! That is so annoying! I'm glad someone else is having the same problems I was! (I thought it was just my "old" eyes! Giggle) Totally agree with you!